It makes the flowers grow!
It makes babies smile!
It has the ability to change lives!!
It makes babies smile!
It has the ability to change lives!!
Well... maybe....
Anyways, I love it. But, even though ignorance is bliss, am I even a credible source if I have never been to another state's fair?
I am thinking that I am not!
Therefore, in order to feel validated in my claim of Iowa State Fair unmatchable awesomeness, I attended the Utah State Fair in order to scope out the competition.
But no worries, the Iowa State Fair still wins. HANDS DOWN!
Not sayin' that the Utah State Fair isn't cool. It is. In a small, not-as-cool-as-the-Iowa-State-Fair kind of way. We (Gnats and I) walked around and saw every single thing there in 2 1/2 hours. The website boasted a whopping 300,000 people go to the Utah State Fair every year, but guess what?!
THE IOWA STATE FAIR GOT ALMOST 1,000,000 THIS YEAR!!!
After all, it is one of the things to do in the New York Time's bestseller, 1000 Things to do Before You Die. Just sayin...
For those of you who have not fulfilled your life's ambition of going to the Iowa State Fair, let me give you a little tidbit about the joy that will eventually enter your life: food on a stick.
YUM YUM YUM! Deep fried twinkies (on a stick), deep fried pickles (on a stick), salad (on a stick), pork chop (on a stick), and pretty much anything you can imagine!! Oh the bliss! Oh the clogged arteries! Oh the unbelievable goodness!!!
Sadly, the Utah State fair did not have very many Iowa State Fair quality things to eat, but I did find a very unusual thing-- and it was even fried on a stick!
It was good! Slightly tangy, and so very unlike chicken (hard to believe, eh?). I don't think I would ever eat it again, but it was an interesting experience.
Lastly, I have to give credit to the Utah fair people, because they at least tried to make their fair as cool as Iowa's by imitating one of the Iowa State Fair's highlights: the butter cow.
"OOH!" "AHHH!!" People file past the Iowa State Fair's butter cow in awed reverence while remarking how they had hoped this year's butter cow would be a Jersey, or reminiscing on last year's Angus. A life sized cow- Udders! Veins! Tail hairs!- all made entirely out of butter: COULD ANYTHING GET BETTER THAN THAT?! I submit that it cannot!
Therefore, Gnats and I were pleasantly surprised (and amused) that the Utah State Fair boasted its own butter cow(s)-- two cows on a date eating ice cream, wearing poodle skirts and jackets. Is that not just terribly quaint?
So anyways, Utah State Fair- good, but not as good. I will still be highly encouragative to anyone who has even the slightest inkling of wanting to go to the Iowa State Fair. 'Ees de behhst!"
Caption on the sign next to our chins: "Bushels of Utah State Fair Fun!"
And then you put your face into the cutouts of apples in a bushel!
Oh, Utahns, you are so witty!
But no worries, the Iowa State Fair still wins. HANDS DOWN!
Not sayin' that the Utah State Fair isn't cool. It is. In a small, not-as-cool-as-the-Iowa-State-Fair kind of way. We (Gnats and I) walked around and saw every single thing there in 2 1/2 hours. The website boasted a whopping 300,000 people go to the Utah State Fair every year, but guess what?!
THE IOWA STATE FAIR GOT ALMOST 1,000,000 THIS YEAR!!!
After all, it is one of the things to do in the New York Time's bestseller, 1000 Things to do Before You Die. Just sayin...
For those of you who have not fulfilled your life's ambition of going to the Iowa State Fair, let me give you a little tidbit about the joy that will eventually enter your life: food on a stick.
YUM YUM YUM! Deep fried twinkies (on a stick), deep fried pickles (on a stick), salad (on a stick), pork chop (on a stick), and pretty much anything you can imagine!! Oh the bliss! Oh the clogged arteries! Oh the unbelievable goodness!!!
Sadly, the Utah State fair did not have very many Iowa State Fair quality things to eat, but I did find a very unusual thing-- and it was even fried on a stick!
FRIED ALLIGATOR ON A STICK!
It was good! Slightly tangy, and so very unlike chicken (hard to believe, eh?). I don't think I would ever eat it again, but it was an interesting experience.Lastly, I have to give credit to the Utah fair people, because they at least tried to make their fair as cool as Iowa's by imitating one of the Iowa State Fair's highlights: the butter cow.
"OOH!" "AHHH!!" People file past the Iowa State Fair's butter cow in awed reverence while remarking how they had hoped this year's butter cow would be a Jersey, or reminiscing on last year's Angus. A life sized cow- Udders! Veins! Tail hairs!- all made entirely out of butter: COULD ANYTHING GET BETTER THAN THAT?! I submit that it cannot!
Therefore, Gnats and I were pleasantly surprised (and amused) that the Utah State Fair boasted its own butter cow(s)-- two cows on a date eating ice cream, wearing poodle skirts and jackets. Is that not just terribly quaint?
So anyways, Utah State Fair- good, but not as good. I will still be highly encouragative to anyone who has even the slightest inkling of wanting to go to the Iowa State Fair. 'Ees de behhst!"
Caption on the sign next to our chins: "Bushels of Utah State Fair Fun!"And then you put your face into the cutouts of apples in a bushel!
Oh, Utahns, you are so witty!
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